Children's National Hospital

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[gentle music] At the Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC, Dr. Eric Hoffman heads up a team which is carrying out clinical trials into muscle wasting diseases.

It's hoped that this research will ultimately lead to a cure for muscular dystrophy.

The most common form is called Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

And those experiences really helped me appreciate the importance of connecting clinical practice, research, and education.

Right before joining AOTF, I worked as an occupational therapist and research collaborator at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, and also served as adjunct faculty at New York University.

Today, in my current role as Chief Scientific Officer at AOTF, I lead the Foundation's scientific and research programs, help identify emerging research priorities, oversee grants and research initiatives, and work to build research capacity across the profession.

What really excites me, though, is creating opportunities that go beyond funding, and I'm sure we'll talk a little bit about each one of those in our conversation.

I mean, there were points in time where my legs were paralyzed and I had to relearn how to walk.

And I had seizures for 32 hours straight and was in Children's National Hospital, which is known to be like one of the best hospitals.

And they looked at my positive Bartonella test and said, you don't have Bartonella, you have FND, which is a common misdiagnosis for PANS-PANDAS.

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Hello, everyone, and thank you again for joining us on the PCICS podcast, the go-to podcast for pediatric cardiac critical care.

My name is Lillian Su, and I'm the immediate past president, the chair of the nomination committee, and the division chief of cardiac critical care medicine at Children's National in Washington, D.C. Today is the last and third installment where we are interviewing each of our PCICS board candidates.

I highly encourage you to go and listen to the other two podcasts if you have not so far.

First up on this iteration of the podcast, we have Chris Knoll, one of the executive producers of the PCICS podcast.

I became a member when I was a fellow.

And Lillian and I, we overlapped.

Lillian was one of my attendings when I was a fellow in critical care at Children's National.

And I had a lot of great mentors in the cardiac ICU.

Uh, and on today's show, we are going to be looking at how technologies like artificial intelligence are beginning to transform, uh, one of the most complex fields of medicine, that is neurosurgery, and what that ultimately, uh, means for our understanding of the human brain.

Um, our guest today is Dr. Dan Donohoe, who is both a pediatric and adult neurosurgeon, uh, located at Children's National Hospital, an assistant professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at GW.

Uh, Dr. Donohoe specializes in some of the most challenging conditions encountered in neurosurgery, including brain and spinal tumors, hydrocephalus, spina bifida, as well as these complex skull base diseases.

And his training includes, uh, a neurosurgical residency at USC, fellowship training in skull base and endoscopic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Mass Gen, and pediatric neurosurgery fellowship training at Texas Children's Hospital.

And yeah, it's, uh, again, it's amazing how quickly it's happening.

But, uh, again, fascinating work.

Um, again, for everybody out there that's going to be listening to this episode, uh, across the various podcast networks or who will be watching on the YouTube channel, you've been spending time with Dr. Dan Donohoe, pediatric and adult neurosurgeon, Children's National Hospital, assistant professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at GW.

We'll also put the link to the Surgical Data Science Collective, uh, in the show notes.

Here are the top twenty twenty-six twenty twenty-seven honor roll hospitals that appear in alphabetical order, and each of the following hospitals is either ranked number one or tied for number one in their state and region.

So we have Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Boston Children's Hospital, the Children's Hospital of Colorado Aurora, the Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, Cincinnati Children's in Cincinnati, Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, Seattle Children's, Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

With these ten ranked specialties in total, there are three pediatric hospitals that are ranked number one in at least one specialty.

And hospitals that were recognized for securing or reclaiming the number one spot in those specialty rankings include Boston Children's Hospital.